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19 Cards in this Set
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Babylon
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The Enuma Elish--creation of myth--the beginning was chaos
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Apsu-father salt water
Tiamat-mother sweet water |
-Tiamat bore monsters, tried to swallow Marduk.
-Marduk slew Tiamat and her ally, Kingu. -Marduk created universe -Marduk made Adapa (man) from clay and blood of Kingu -Adapa insulted gods and lost immortality -Gods sent flood; only Atrahasis & wife saved. |
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The BIG BANG
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means the universe is blowing up....also relating to the clumps of stars and galaxies.
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Other places and their meanings:
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Nigeria: Obtala (sky) and Odudua (Earth Mother) begat Agnaju (dry land) and Yemaja (wet land).
China: World Egg (chaos) Divide Yin and Yang (earth and sky) Polynesia: Chaos= Papa(mother earth) and Rangi (father sky) Japan: Chaos= Izanagi and Izanami begat the 8 island and the kami Amaterasu Zimbabwe: Moon mates w/ morning/evening start. |
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Cosmological Conviction
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There is a cosmic order that permeates every level of reality. All things are related. Each element of the cosmos is a microcosm of the whole.
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Greece: Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days
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-Chaos, Gaia(earth)
-Beginning: Ouranos, Kronos,Zeus |
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Heinrich Schliemann:
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Discovery of Troy at Hissarlik in Turkey--1870
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Zeus:
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Hera: very attached to Zeus & sacred marriage
Leda: Zeus feel in love with Leda and disgused himself as a swan. She has two eggs with two children in each. Leonardo: Castor & Pollux, Clytemnestra & Helen IO:(came to her as a cloud) visit Prometheus: Io's 13th generation great-grandson: Hercules |
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Achilles
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Peleus & Thetis=Achilles and Chiron (wife)
Achilles on Skyros w/daughters of Lycomedes (dressed him up as a girl, cuz he didn't want to fight) |
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Homer: Oral Poetry
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Trojan War 13th Century
Homer 8th Century Tragedies 5th Century Us 21st Century |
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Iliad:
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Achilles
Agamemnon Briseis Paris and Helen Hektor and Andromache Patroklos Simone Weil, The Iliad: the Poem of Force Jonathan Shea, Achilles in Vietnam Albert Lord, Singer of Tales Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans |
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Greek Drama:
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dithyramb: ritual singing and dancing
Kyklos choros: circle dance Dionysos: god of wine and nature's wet elements |
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Three types of plays:
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Tragedy means goat song (Antigone and Agamemnon)
Comedy means festival song Satyr play, short skit following a trilogy of tragedies, in which actors dressed like satyrs (goat-men) |
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Thespis: "inventor" of drama
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hence actors are called "Thespians"
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Festivals:
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Rural Dionysia: in mid-winter
Lenaea: mid-winter in Athens: mostly comedy Urban Dionysia: week long Athenian matsuri of choir contests, comdedies, and 3 days of tragedy contests |
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Males Actors only
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Chorus- like an acotr, talking and singing about their reactions btwn parts of action
Mask- made out of wood, linen or leather |
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Tragedians:
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Aeschylus: used myth to communicate ultimate values such as justice
Sophocles: used myth to reflect on humanity in relation to the universe Euripides: interested in human nature, not as idealized, but in terms of individual character |
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Meaning of the names from Tragedians
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Aeschylus: theologian
Sophocles: Philospher Euripides: Psycologist |
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Bulidings:
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Theatron=viewing place
Orchestra=dancing place skene=tent parodoi=side paths theatre of Dionysos at Athens Epidauros (best theater) |
